Matt Gaetz in Mother Jones magazine

On Environment: Introduced bill to abolish the EPA

What about the Climate Solutions Caucus in the House, the growing bipartisan caucus whose 70 members are equally divided between Republicans and Democrats? One might expect the caucus Republicans to earn higher scores than their party overall, and technically they did score a bit better than their House peers. But their average 16 percent score is still a failing grade.

In fact, more than half of the Republicans on the caucus earned less than 10 percent (Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who once proposed a bill to abolish the EPA, is among them with 6 percent).

[The Climate Solutions Caucus's] critics charge the caucus has expanded its size at the expense of its credibility, providing Republicans who have been actively hostile to government programs a low-stakes opportunity to "greenwash" their climate credentials without backing meaningful action--just in time for midterm elections.

Source: Rebecca Leber in Mother Jones on LCV Enviro Scorecard Feb 27, 2018

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